White
owls

From
the Sumner Chronicle, June 14, 1991:

...
Dr. Van Vechten, a member of the second graduating class [of Whitworth
College] lived right across
from
the
college building.
A wire had been
strung between the VanVechten house. Extra eats had often been swung
across this wire to the hungry boys, for midnight feeds. Halloween
was prank-playing time so the boys took the crockery used for toilet
purposes and slipped them out on the wire. Great was the consternation
the next morning when faculty members saw this exhibition. Professor
Fox took his shotgun and shot down the white owls and the handles
dangled from the wire for months.